More information about cookies

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored on your web browser any time you visit a webpage.Cookies are used to keep track of your visits within the site in order to remember when you come back again. Not many people know that las cookies have been used for 20 years, since the first browsers appeared for the World Wide Web.

What is NOT a cookie?

It is not a virus, or a trojan, or a worm, or spam, or spyware, and it doesn’t open pop-up windows either.

What kind of information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your identity card or personal information, etc. The data stored are technical details, personal preferences, customized content, etc.

The web server does not recognize you as a person but as a web browser. In fact, if you usually use Internet Explorer and try browsing the same web with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it just recognize the browser, not the person.

What kind of cookies exist?

• Technical Cookies: These are the most basic cookies, they allow, among others things, to distinguish human beings from automated applications or an anonymous from a registered user, those are basic tasks for the functioning of any dynamic web.
• Analytic Cookies: These cookies collect information on the type of web browsing, most used sections, most consulted products, time slot, language, etc.
• Advertising Cookies: These cookies show advertising based on your web browsing, country of origin, language, etc.

What are third party and own cookies?

‘Own Cookies’ are generated by the website that you are visiting and ‘Third Party Cookies’ are generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

What happens if I disable cookies?

To understand the effect of disabling cookies we show you some examples:

• You won’t able to share contents from that website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
• The website won’t be able to adapt contents to your personal preferences, as often happen in online stores.
• It won’t be possible to access to the personal area of the web, such as My Account, or My Profile or My orders.
• Online Stores: You won’t be able to make online shopping, it will have to be by telephone or visiting the physical store, if it is available.
• It won’t be possible to customize your geographic preferences as time slot, currency or language.
• The website won’t be able to perform web analytics about visitors and web traffic, making difficult its competitiveness on the net.
• You won’t be able to write on the blog, upload photos, post comments or rate content. The website won’t be able to know if you are a human being or an automated application that publishes spam. spam.
• No sectorized advertising will be displayed, which will reduce website advertising income.
• All social networks use cookies, if you disable cookies you won’t be able to use any of them.

Can I delete cookies?

Yes. And not only remove but also block them, in general or for a specific domain in particular.

To remove cookies from a website you must go to your browser settings and look for those associated to the domain in question and proceed to its elimination.

Cookies setting for popular browsers

Now we will show you how to access to a particular cookie of Chrome browser. Note: these steps may change depending on the browser version:

1. Go to Settings or Preferences on the File menu or clicking the customized icon that appears at top right.
2. You will see different sections, click on ‘Show Advanced Options’.
3. Go to Privacy – Settings Content.
4. Select All Cookies and Site Datas.
5. You will see a list of cookies ordered by domain. To make it easier to find cookies of a specific domain you can partially or fully enter the address in the field Search Cookies.
6. After using this filter, you will see one or more lines with the cookies of the requested website. Now just select it and press X to proceed with its removal.

To access to Cookies Settings in Internet Explorer follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Tools – Internet Options
2. Click on Privacy.
3. Move the slider to adjust the level of privacy you prefer.

To access to Cookies Settings in Firefox follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Options or Preferences depending on you operating system.
2. Click on Privacy.
3. In History choose Use Custom Settings for History.
4. Now you will see the Accept Cookies option, you can either enable or disable it according to your preferences.

To access to Cookies Settings in Safari for iOSX follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Settings – Privacy.
2. Here you will find the Block Cookies option where you can adjust the kind of block you prefer.

To access to Cookies Settings in Safari for iOS follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Go to Settings – Safari.
2. Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the Block Cookies option to adjust the kind of block you prefer.

To access to Cookies Settings for Android devices follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Launch the browser and press Menu – Settings.
2. Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the Accept Cookies option to enable or disable cookies.

To access to Cookies Settings for Windows Phone devices follow these steps (which may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Open Internet Explorer – More – Settings
2. Now you can enable or disable the Allow Cookies box.